It's Been Fun Everyone

I'm sure you'll see the ITT press release soon, but I thought you all should read it here first.

After nearly four years, ITT's first blogger SecurityMonkey has announced his immediate retirement from the blogosphere.

SecurityMonkey has graced ITT's blogging pages with a unique and interesting writing style that has enthralled his readers, and left them waiting impatiently for his next post - especially his well known case files.

"It was a huge honor and incredibly humbling experience for ITT to pick me as their first blogger four years ago." says SecurityMonkey. "These years have been a rat race for me trying to balance my full time job, consulting work, writing a book, and maintaining the SecurityMonkey blog. My feverish work pace has finally caught up with me, and for health and sanity reasons I had to bring one of my activities to an end. After considerable thought and many sleepless nights, I realized that it was going to have to be my blog."

ITT's blog coordinator, Tim Ribich, commented that "We were all shocked. The Chief had just won blog and blog entry of the year two years in a row. His readers love him, and his readership just grows and grows. We've tried to change his mind, but in the end we realize that this is something very personal to SM. He's left a huge mark on our blogging scene, and he's going to be missed."

SecurityMonkey was also well known for the semi-regular "SecurityMonkey Podcast" that covered topics from his blog, interviews, product reviews, two co-hosts and a sense of humor that only his loyal listeners could appreciate.

"What I'll miss the most," SecurityMonkey said in a recent e-mail exchange with Tim Ribich, "is the readers, their comments, and their e-mails. They were my constant motivation and my inspiration. No author in the world could ask for a better support system."

When asked if the SecurityMonkey blog or podcast might make a return in the near future, SecurityMonkey replied with a cryptic message of "%41%50%52%49%4c%46%4f%4f%4c%53%21".

That's great. I'll finally be able to get some real work done at the office. My productivity should increase an easy 70% now that I do not have to juggle my day job and keeping up with your barrage of entries.

Guys, chill! I know it's sad that Chief Monkey is quitting but don't worry. ITtoolbox has some backup plans all ready. Apparently the copyright to "Security Monkey" is being auctioned to some of the top bloggers at ITtoolbox who will then keep writing posts on his behalf without the readers knowing it. Infact, it'll be so good that even after months of blog posts by these new writers, readers will think this post was some April fools joke or something. Bozos. ITtoolbox, inorder to keep reader traffic from dropping close to pre 2003 levels which is like...ahem ahem, simply had to keep the Security Monkey alive.

Just to let you know in advance before the official press release.. I mean the rest of it (which is presently being delayed because of a major strike by the "Press release association" (some union which outsourced itself India)), I, that's right, I was offered a post called "Security Monkey" by Tim Ribich. oh yeah, I was as baffled as many of you. But Tim said something like "you're the closest we got to monkey brains". I was flattered.

Now, now now.. before you get all pissed of with Tim for no apparent reason, kindly understand that just because I don't have any security experience or some case file or just because I can't do anything with firewalls or generate strong passwords (I usually depend on my friends) or know how to install and uninstall anti virus packs (and whoever is making them) and though I've got a couple of trojans running somewhere on my comp, I still think I make a great security expert...if not better than Chief.

So thanks Chief. Thanks Tim. It sure is going to be fun wrecking this blog. buhuhahahahaahaaaaaa!

I was getting concerned until I hit the bottom of the post and the closing message . . . having worked far to long in the bit-banging world, I read it almost as quickly as the "clear-text" above it . . . and sighed with relief! ;-)

Your stories are very interesting and I have learned quite a bit. I want to eventually get into the security field but for now I am just Technical Support for my company. Seems like a very rewarding and interesting field to work in! Sorry to see you go!

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